mountain

Origin & mnemonic

The mountain radical originates from a pictograph in oracle-bone and seal script, depicting three peaks of a mountain standing in a row.

Mnemonic: Three vertical strokes side by side resemble three mountain peaks standing tall.

• 山shān🔊

  HSK 1

  3 strokes

• 乢gài🔊

  ancient variant of 蓋|盖[gai4]

  4 strokes

• 屴lì🔊

  high mountain range

  5 strokes

• 岁suì🔊

  HSK 1

  6 strokes

• 岂qǐ🔊

  how? (emphatic question)

  6 strokes

• 屹yì🔊

  high and steep

  6 strokes

• 屺qǐ🔊

  (literary) a barren hill

  6 strokes

• 屼wù🔊

  bare hill

  6 strokes

• 屾shēn🔊

  (literary) two mountains standing next to each other

  6 strokes

• 屿yǔ🔊

  islet

  6 strokes

• 岀chū🔊

  old variant of 出[chu1]

  6 strokes

• 岌jí🔊

  lofty peak

  6 strokes

• 岛dǎo🔊

  variant of 島|岛[dao3]

  HSK 6

  7 strokes

• 岈yá🔊

  see 嵖岈山[Cha2 ya2 Shan1]

  7 strokes

• 岗gǎng🔊

  (bound form) hillock; mound

  7 strokes

• 岊jié🔊

  mountain peak

  7 strokes

• 岍qiān🔊

  name of a mountain

  7 strokes

• 岐qí🔊

  variant of 歧[qi2]

  7 strokes

• 岑cén🔊

  small hill

  7 strokes

• 岒qián🔊

  character used in place names

  7 strokes

• 岔chà🔊

  fork in road

  7 strokes

• 岖qū🔊

  used in 崎嶇|崎岖[qi2 qu1]

  7 strokes

• 岘xiàn🔊

  abbr. for 峴首山|岘首山[Xian4 shou3 shan1]

  7 strokes

• 岙ào🔊

  plain in the middle of the mountains

  7 strokes

• 岚lán🔊

  (bound form) mountain mist

  7 strokes

• 岜bā🔊

  stony hill

  7 strokes

• 岿kuī🔊

  high and mighty (of mountain)

  8 strokes

• 岸àn🔊

  variant of 岸[an4]

  HSK 5

  8 strokes

• 冈gāng🔊

  ridge

  8 strokes

• 岩yán🔊

  cliff

  8 strokes

• 岭lǐng🔊

  mountain range

  8 strokes

• 岬jiǎ🔊

  cape (geography)

  8 strokes

• 岱Dài🔊

  Mt Tai in Shandong

  8 strokes

• 㟃sī🔊

  (used in place names)

  8 strokes

• 岝Zuò🔊

  name of a mountain in Shandong

  8 strokes

• 岞Zuò🔊

  (used in place names)

  8 strokes

• 岢kě🔊

  used in 岢嵐|岢岚[Ke3 lan2] (the name of a place in Shanxi)

  8 strokes

• 岣gǒu🔊

  name of a hill in Hunan

  8 strokes

• 岧tiáo🔊

  lofty peak

  8 strokes

• 岨qū🔊

  rocky hill

  8 strokes

• 岫xiù🔊

  cave

  8 strokes

• 岳yuè🔊

  high mountain

  8 strokes

• 岵hù🔊

  (literary) mountain covered with vegetation

  8 strokes

• 岷mín🔊

  name of a river in Sichuan

  8 strokes

• 岹tiáo🔊

  variant of 岧[tiao2]

  8 strokes

• 岽Dōng🔊

  place name in Guangxi province

  8 strokes

• 峀xiù🔊

  old variant of 岫[xiu4]

  8 strokes

• 峁mǎo🔊

  round yellow dirt mount (in the Northwest of China)

  8 strokes